Catching up on the weird world of LLMs
I gave a talk on Sunday at North Bay Python where I attempted to summarize the last few years of development in the space of LLMs—Large Language Models, the technology …
Catching up on the weird world of LLMs Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: Atlassian - Give your agents a plan. Not a prompt. New Jira capabilities unlock full-context for AI-native software development. Assign tasks to Claude, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, now directly from Jira. Learn more Catching up on the weird world of LLMs 3rd August 2023 I gave a talk on Sunday at North Bay Python where I attempted to summarize the last few years of development in the space of LLMs—Large Language Models, the technology behind tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard and Llama 2. My goal was to help peo
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